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Like its predecessor, whose functions it took over, ICAO makes majority decisions. I t has, however, a greatly increased range of authority. Subject to appeal to the International Court of Justice, it adjudicates in disputes relating to the interpretation and application of the Chicago Convention. It can apply effective sanctions such as suspension of the voting rights, transit and landing rights of delinq uent states. Apart from the creation of ICAO, the greatest advance made at Chicago was the two-freedoms agreement that gave the parties the right of transit for international airways and the liberty to land for refuge from storms and other non-traffic purposes.
Since majorities cannot yet legislate for the world,s there was, legally, no general three-mile limit. The International Law Commission of the United Nations took up the task of formulating a code not only for territorial waters, but for the high seas, ocean fisheries, and the continental shelf. The result was the four conventions on these subjects drawn up at Geneva in 1958. These remove long-standing disagreements about the passage of foreign private and public ships through territorial waters; adopt a mathematical definition of bays and define the limits of national sovereignty in them; establish rules on jurisdiction over ships; chart a new regime for ocean fisheries, and formulate principles to reconcile national rights of exploitation on the continental shelf with a general freedom of navigation.
Declaring that there can be no peace without "social justice," this text asserted that labor conditions existed that imposed a degree of" injustice, hardship and privation" incompatible with world harmony. Under the driving direction of Albert Thomas, the organization established to combat these evils set vigorously Theory' and Reality in World Politics to work on the long and complex task of liberalizing labor conditions the world over. Policies and events culminating in the war of 1939-45 destroyed the League of Nations.